Binpress, an appstore like marketplace for web developers to buy and sell source code packages from each other, recently launched. Binpress acts as a source-code distribution platform for web frameworks (such as CakePHP and Django) and platforms (such as WordPress and Joomla), as well as quality standalone components. Binpress’s goal is to offer high-quality and high-level source-code solutions for development projects and web ventures.
To kick start their startup, they’re starting things off with an amazing programming contest, with over $40,000 in prizes and cash. The competition is sponsored by over 30 top companies such as: Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Amazon Web Services, Conduit, O’Reilly, Tropo, Media Temple, uTest and others.
Binpress offers the following benefits to developers and consumers:
- Developers add a passive income channel by selling mature and tested source code. They can leverage Binpress’ marketing and distribution efforts allowing them to focus on their expertise – software development.
- Buyers can be assured they are purchasing quality, tested code from professional web developers, and have access to solutions in a variety of platforms and frameworks. They receive a money-back guarantee as well as all future updates and fixes of the source code and the opportunity to contact the developer should it be required.
- Development time and costs are significantly reduced by leveraging professional, ready-to-use application code, allowing web projects and startups to focus on their unique problem domain.
Renee Blodgett is the founder of We Blog the World. The site combines the magic of an online culture and travel magazine with a global blog network and has contributors from every continent in the world. Having lived in 10 countries and explored nearly 80, she is an avid traveler, and a lover, observer and participant in cultural diversity.
She is also the CEO and founder of Magic Sauce Media, a new media services consultancy focused on viral marketing, social media, branding, events and PR. For over 20 years, she has helped companies from 12 countries get traction in the market. Known for her global and organic approach to product and corporate launches, Renee practices what she pitches and as an active user of social media, she helps clients navigate digital waters from around the world. Renee has been blogging for over 16 years and regularly writes on her personal blog Down the Avenue, Huffington Post, BlogHer, We Blog the World and other sites. She was ranked #12 Social Media Influencer by Forbes Magazine and is listed as a new media influencer and game changer on various sites and books on the new media revolution. In 2013, she was listed as the 6th most influential woman in social media by Forbes Magazine on a Top 20 List.
Her passion for art, storytelling and photography led to the launch of Magic Sauce Photography, which is a visual extension of her writing, the result of which has led to producing six photo books: Galapagos Islands, London, South Africa, Rome, Urbanization and Ecuador.
Renee is also the co-founder of Traveling Geeks, an initiative that brings entrepreneurs, thought leaders, bloggers, creators, curators and influencers to other countries to share and learn from peers, governments, corporations, and the general public in order to educate, share, evaluate, and promote innovative technologies.
